Women at the Wheel
In Mozambique, an effort to train women as ambulance drivers enhances public safety and fosters opportunity.
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Funding the Sun
Village Power Finance gives members of nonprofit associations a novel way to pay for solar conversion projects.
Lots of Opportunity
An online platform helps city governments to discover, organize, and market publicly owned property.
Bike-Sharing Goes Small
Local bike-lending arrangements offer an alternative to bigger, more complex bike-sharing systems.
Law Without Lawyers
Timap for Justice trains ordinary citizens to provide legal assistance in a country—Sierra Leone—where legal professionals are scarce.
Scoring Sustainability
Through an initiative called Earthwards, Johnson & Johnson aims to create a greener company—one product at a time.
A Smarter Way to Park
In San Francisco, planners are using variable pricing to reduce the congestion, pollution, and aggravation that come with big-city traffic.
Citizen Chronicles
A program in Alberta, Canada, showcases the way that people with disabilities contribute actively to their communities. Includes magazine extras.
Resurrecting Traditional Practices
There has been a renewed interest in traditional Indian spiritual practices by Native and other Americans alike.